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@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ Back to the initial hole, rosa had arrived back at the surface without too much rosa and james went off to survey pelvis pot. its a large open hole with a climb down on the north and south sides, there is a continuation on the east side which continues down a climb past a pelvis (gemze?) to a chossy end with a small tube on the left which also chokes out. james taught rosa some surveying which ended in tears!
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We headed off towards the Promised Land. Very excited about the area that had apparently 'made backa smile'. All in all it was a bit hopless. Lots of masive long, deep rifts - around 7-12m deep, 2-6 m across - that would all appeared to chock out at the bottom. No evidence of anything horizontal. The most promising spot was a nice arch at the bottom of a wide rift that Rosa and I scrambled down to, but this did not go more than a few meters deep. I walked above all the major rifts and scrambled down into a few, witrhout promise. My opinion is that the beds in the promiosed land are all poor in caves. And if there were any minor caves they would pop out very quickly. Searching on the northern side of the ridge may be more promising where the beds can be intercepted. @@ -1851,13 +1851,16 @@ Some of the group explored Stoney Arch up there, then we headed back. Me James a We did however discover a very promising cave entrance. Turns out it was found by becka in 2004, and surveyed in 2013 by Alex Crow et al, but there is some ambiguity about whethjer it was killed off, and may be worth returning.The whole area around there appeared highly promising for cave entrances - though seems to be well prospected in the past.
Arrived at stoney as the first rain drops fell, througoulyu punished for our hubris for attempting a 'short cut'. + +
+I have uploaded a gpx file of my approximate path this day, made 3 daya later, called 'Prospect_day_3.8.24.gpx'